Prior to the 2012 London Summer Olympics, his best result was 403 kg (185 snatch + 218 clean and jerk achieved in Antalya 2010).

On 27 July 2016, the IWF reported that, in the IOC's second wave of doping re-sampling, Ivanov had tested positive for the steroid dehydrochlormethyltestosterone.

[1] On 14 September 2016, Ivanov was stripped of his Olympic silver medal.

[2] In 2023 the International Weightlifting Federation annulled his results between 7 March 2012 and 7 February 2022.

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